Daily archive for Friday, 27 April 2012

Finally I found the time to “develop” my Perl dev-room @ FOSDEM 2012 pictures (convert from camera RAW files to jpg). It was a very nice event. If you missed the Perl dev-room in the past year, you should really visit us in 2013. Or even [...]

For some reason, creating DBIx::Class schemas by hand has never made sense to me. I like to write my CREATE TABLE statements instead. DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader works really well for this. I keep this schema DDL in version control. I also keep...

The latest B::C package on CPAN 1.42 works stable for almost all perls until 5.14, but so far did not work good enough for the upcoming 5.16 release. I couldn't even pinpoint to a specific perl change which caused the...

I have finally booked flights for my summer travel. I start travelling next week and will be away from home for 14 out of the next 21 weeks. I have booked 20 flights and plan to be in Seoul, Pittsburgh, Rome, Chicago, Madison, Amsterdam, Belfast, Fra [...]

Consider this: This is imperative code, it uses variables with state, but from the outside it is a pure mathematical function. This is because all of its variables are created a new when the function is being executed and destroyed after that. It does [...]

Nuba Princigalli will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as: What we’ll see in this talk: * What’s a Graph Database and why should we care? * How to model our problem domains to such thing? * How to...

Alberto Simões will give a talk at YAPC::Europe 2012 described as In this talk I will present the recipe I am using to build Perl Modules that depend on C or C++ libraries (and that ship those C or C++...